 An Automobile  A Ball Team  A School  A Family FatherMotherChildren Family System All Systems Have: Roles Rules Communication Power structure All.

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 An Automobile  A Ball Team  A School  A Family FatherMotherChildren Family System All Systems Have: Roles Rules Communication Power structure All Systems Have: Roles Rules Communication Power structure

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Raising Children God’s Way!

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 My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; (Proverbs 1:8 NKJV)  My son, keep your father's command, And do not forsake the law of your mother. (Proverbs 6:20 NKJV)  Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6 NKJV)

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 Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding; For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law. When I was my father's son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live. (Proverbs 4:1-4 NKJV)

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 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise: "that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth." And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:1-4 NKJV)  Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. (Colossians 3:20-21 NKJV)  For whom the LORD loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights. (Proverbs 3:12 NKJV)

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"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. "You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 NKJV) 1. Fervent Love for God 2. Ingrained Knowledge of God’s Word 3. Diligent Teaching at Every Opportunity 4. Reverence For God’s Word

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Deuteronomy 6:7-9

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 On the birth of his first child, Lt. Commander J. P. Carr received a letter of advice from his own father. “Teach her as many of the seven hundred thousand words of the English language as you have time to, but be sure she knows that the greatest word is GOD; the longest word, ETERNITY; the swiftest word, TIME; the nearest word, NOW; the darkest word, SIN; the meanest word, HYPOCRISY; and the deepest word, SOUL.” (Quoted in Caprock Church Bulletin, Feb. 19, 1986, 18:8:2)

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1. Basic needs of food, clothing, shelter and education. 2. A safe harbor to which the children can retreat when in danger. 3. A relationship with parents wherein the children are to honor them and learn obedience. 4. Reasonable expectations 5. Appropriate appreciation  But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. (1 Timothy 5:8 NKJV)  Luke 15 – The Good Father  And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4 NKJV)